Category Archives: TUCSON
Arizona Wedding Photography | Catalina Foothills Private Estate | Inspiration: Hippies, Biceps and Burlap | Part Two
{Arizona Wedding Photography | Catalina Foothills Private Estate | Inspiration: Hippies, Biceps and Burlap | Part Two }
If you didn’t catch Part One go HERE! Brent & Erica’s wedding continued on.
okay…. i asked Erica to just run into Brent’s arms like she did when she saw him the very first time. And unfortunately i didn’t catch it, but she totally jumped nearly over him. He barely caught her and this is them laughing so hard about it…
but then we did finally nail it…
and then this pretty little girl came to give them a few gifts…
something about an inside joke and using random pieces of nature to mean something special….they just giggled a bit about it. i took pictures. and i’ll never know the rest of the story.
and then it was cake time :)
i love succulents. I’m convinced God had fun when he was making the whole breed of succulents. they are hardy. unique. and beautiful when displayed appropriately
spun around to catch this little tike enjoying his first lime…:)
the wedding was at this awesome private estate that used to be a “Bed-N-Breakfast” in the Catalina Foothills. They kept things casual and low key by having the dance party in the drive way…
love this last one. it’s just an amazing picture of surrender…:)
Thank you so much for letting me be part of your wedding day Brent & Erica. Seriously can’t stop grinning about the laughs and funny moments. I totally felt at home with you and your family! | joy, LKM
Andy + Autumn | Cowboy Meets Cowgirl | Tucson Engagement Session | Arizona Wedding Photographer
{Andy + Autumn | Cowboy Meets Cowgirl | Tucson Engagement Session | Arizona Wedding Photographer | Make Up & Hair Artist: Dana Buchanan}
Autumn specifically contacted me because she said, ‘i loved your website! it was clean. simple. and your images were beautiful.’ AWESOME SAUCE. I’ve been processing brand identity behind the scenes for awhile now. I’m keeping things clean and simple until i figure it out. And apparently that’s just fine because i got to meet, greet and laugh with two awesome little love birds who were precious to shoot. Her gentleness with him was my favorite part. Autumn adores Andy. And I can just tell it makes him walk 10 feet taller. He adores her back. And it makes her eyes dance like a million sunbeams…(grin)…too sappy for you? feast your eyeballs then and swoon later. | lkm
(above) she made those cute little placks herself. so crafty. i’m pretty jealous of craft people ya know. :) (below) Seriously. Her skin is flawless! I went to go do air brushing…and i was like, “uhm…well, i guess i could…nope. not really…”…
this next series in the orange trees are some of my favorites. he just holds her…and she drinks in his embrace.
a boy and his gun…and his girl. :)
Andy is going to be deployed soon. Not sure where. Not sure when. Not sure for how long. But by golly, this will just have to be their FIRST of many sweetheart shoots…one day we’re gonna have ourselves a WEDDING! Love you guys! | LKM
Amir + Maribel | Tucson, Arizona Wedding Photographer | Reflections at the Buttes | Inspiration: Pink, Silver, Sparkle | PART ONE
{Amir + Maribel | Tucson, Arizona Wedding Photographer | Reflections at the Buttes | Inspiration: Pink, Silver, Sparkle}
Since I met Amir & Maribel at an expo last May we’ve had coffee dates, email convos, phone chats, and shot a 3 part engagement session (Go HERE to see highlights from their engagement session!). Come wedding time they trusted me and we laughed a bunch! They’re wedding party was great–friends supporting each other and celebrating! We had a few inside jokes to tease about, they’re friends and family were very gracious, and their wedding….well, here are the highlights! Here is PART ONE of their sophisticated and classy wedding!
oh munchkin face … :)
lil’ girls :)
Mari, you are absolutely stunning!
gorgeous bouquet!
cool ring holder yea?!
So so suave. :)
Nothin’ like a daddy-daughter cuddle right before show time :)
the studs
Reflections at the Buttes is gorgeous!
check out this shot below! my second shooter, heather, snagged it right as the couple were saying ‘I do’… gah. love it! props heather!
pure joy!
STAY TUNED FOR PART TWO!!!
Jeff & Laura | A German Flight Attendant + Military World Traveler | Tucson Engagement Session
{Tucson Earthy Engagement Session | Jeff & Laura | March 2013}
Jeff & Laura have a love story straight out of a chick flick. No joke. She’s a German flight attendent who flies all over the world and Jeff is in the military, they met in the air, on a plane, thousands of feet above the earth. See what I mean? Doesn’t it just make you wanna break out in song?! Or send their story to Hollywood or something?! Laura first contacted me on facebook as she prepared to come visit Jeff from Germany for a few weeks in February. By the hair of our chinny chin chin we found a date that worked, planned a shoot and hooked her up with soft, sweet, natural styling by my bomb stylist Dana Buchanan. | My time with Jeff & Laura was a royal picnic. I’d hang out with them just for fun any day. I underestimate how goofy and easy going Jeff would be–oh! and their heart-warming affection for each other is pure gold. (sigh) Oh friends, I hope these pictures are a treat to smile over for years to come. :) Joy, LKM
yea yea yea. i realize that the frame thing is SO yesterday’s pinterest fad…but whatever. they rocked it. 
Andrew + Sam | Tucson Desert Rain-Soaked Maternity Session
{Tucson Maternity Session | Desert Rain | February 2013}
3 years ago my little family of 4 (at that time) lived together with Andrew & Sam. It was one of the best years ever. Doing life together; intentionally living ‘in community’ as we called it, was a glorious challenge that stretched us and drew us close and taught us much. We have braved some stormy weather together and apart these past 3 years, and just a couple weeks ago I had the absolute treat to shoot Andrew & Sam’s maternity session. I’m pretty sure it was the coldest day of the year. Sam sure thought so. She had prepared for sunny skies and the notorious Tucson heat–of which, i reminded her, is actually seasonal and that we do, in fact, have SEASONS in the desert. weird, i know. but now you know. | So this is them. The Horvath family. They are and always will be so very dear to our hearts. This precious little anticipated bundle of humanity will be joining us in just 2 months. Holy Moly. This is life everyone. There is life in there! (A little creepy. A lotta awesome.) Love you friends! | LKM 
SO SO SO excited for and eagerly waiting for you to join the ranks of parents equally as overwhelmed with the significance and intensity of our job! WOOT! Go team go. | lkm
Sophia | tucson lifestyle newborn moments
{Sophia | Lifestyle Newborn Moments | Tucson, AZ | January 2013}
I’ve titled this blog very intentionally: ‘lifestyle newborn moments’ :) Seriously. Newborn photography is NOT my forte. In fact, I have a grip of newborn photographers I am UBER eager to refer any expecting mom to (email me). Newborn photography is an incredibly fine art in and of itself. You know–the time, patience and intense fine skill and prep to nail those BOMB pinterest images that make mommies swoon all over the planet? Babies posing in perfect sleepy poses with heads propped in their hands or cuddled up in ball of perfection. Yup. Never gotten there. NEVER.
I called up my friend, Missy, yesterday to see if i could swing by and just capture a few moments of ‘little-ness.’ It wasn’t fancy. I have no props. I haven’t any fancy backdrops or monkey hats or cool fluffy pilllows perfect for these things. I just wanted to snatch a few moments in this stage of Sophia’s first week where newness abounds. So with GPS in hand and a bit o’ dinner love in tow, I paid a visit. I hugged Drew & Missy, conversed a little with new-big-sister Emma, gushed over Sophia and snatch a few real moments with the family. (beat) This whole welcoming-new-life into the world is intense. Motherhood is intense. The tiny-ness and abandonment of self is insane…crazy, crazy beautiful. (moment to weep a little inside my heart with how big of a deal these thoughts are) (anyways) Love you Montagues! Welcome Sophia! | lkm 
Amir + Maribel | Tucson Engagement Session | Wedding Photographer
{ Amir + Maribel | Tucson Engagement Session }
These two have been a treat to shoot this past season in Tucson. We met at a bridal expo last April and since then, we’ve shot a 3-part engagement series that has me tickled pink to share! My favorite thing about these two….how gentle and poised both of them are; so ‘put-together’…refined…a constant sense of ‘class’ sorta oozes from both of them. And yet they hired me for their wedding because, (i quote) ‘we had so much fun and need someone to bring out our fun side’. yes, ma’am! | lkm (note: this is one LARGE chunk of awesomeness for a single blog post. but i refuse to break it up into “sections”… :D i like the fact that they progressively got more and more comfortable each time we went out for a shoot, played, laughed, kissed….kissed some more… these two just ‘fit’ together :D)
{ Downtown – pt 1 }
{Downtown – pt 2}
Can’t wait for wedding time Amir & Maribel! 10xs more awesomeness awaits us! :D | lkm
Neal + Connie | Modern Chic Downtown Tucson Engagement Session
{Neal + Connie | Downtown Tucson Engagement Session | Tucson Wedding Photography}
We made it to downtown promptly during Friday’s rush hour and had to race a quickly setting sun amidst the war (cough) i mean, construction zone that is down there. Streets were closed, parking spots were packed (because apparently Tour De Tucson is a big deal), and I was getting a lil’ nervous about finding a stellar backdrop and making it all ‘work’…and then i caught myself–your focus is FIRST people, not places. I watched Neal & Connie respond and react, enjoy each other and laugh freely. We even made a grungy parking lot look like a light-pool filled with bougainvillea! Ta Da! (pause) (debating in my head wether to go that extra measure of disclosure….here goes…)
To be honest, I have never felt so disheveled before a photo session. I’m back from maternity leave and figuring life out — balancing three little ones and (thankfully)enjoying a good photography work load while figuring out a system to make both hats fit. Being able to release these highlights is sheer relief. We did it!! Come rain or shine, babies or sleepless nights, there is grace and pictures are glowing across the screen right now! New lovebirds are being captured and put on display and I’m so excited to share these two with you! | lkm
the ‘look we’re so fun!’ series on 4th avenue… she had a nintendo shirt. he had a startreck shirt. bomb. 
dude, they SO got into that jump…
Mike + Lauren | Downtown Tucson Engagement Session
{Mike & Lauren | Downton Tucson Engagement Session | October 2012}
Mike & Lauren are good friends of Matt & Marcy and when I got Lauren’s email eager to see if I could shoot her wedding exactly one week before M & M’s, I grinned. April is going to be AWESOME. Mike & Lauren were a pretty shnazzy couple to begin with. We met for coffee a few days before our downtown engagement shoot to flesh out a few concepts and wardrobe ideas. Mike & Lauren’s biggest objective in pictures was to show their personality–create images to beef up their wedding website that helped introduce each other to friends and family. :) We made a list of personality quirks, noted a few awesome props (some shown below. some not :D)–I was so giddy. They GOT it–they understood the idea that a picture goes deeper than a pretty face or perfect smile or stellar jeans or that trendy shoe. This picture collection was to be their story and they wanted ‘themselves’ to ooze gloriously henceforth. | lkm
Goal # 1. Capture Personality. Him = Intraverted comic horder and pretend artist. Brown’s fan. Her = Extraverted, childhood dress-up finatic and Wildcat loyalist
Goal #2: Capture the love and quirky, perfect mix they are for eachother
Goal #3: Relive a bit of the ‘proposal romance’ by shooting in the same location as Mike proposed…Tucson Convention Center Courtyard
(i can’t get over her smile! ) :D
(more personality)
Goal #4: Capture a bit of Tucson — the tones, the cactus, the ‘feel’…
Tucson Family Photographer | A Family’s Downtown Stroll Whilst an Urban Sunset Glows| CHUTE FAM & CO.
{Tucson Family Portraits | Chute Girls | September 2012}
This fun family traveled out from Phoenix to capture some awesome family memories before mom and dad shipped off to Scotland for 6 months! Though nervous that the shoot was going to get trumped by impossible work schedules OR my unborn child’s early entrance, we nailed a family shoot in the ‘nick o’ time’ and I’m stoked to share a few highlights! | lkm 
from whence these children came…
daddy and daughters
sweetheart lovin
sister jealousy
dan fits in really well
Thank you Chute Family. Please hug the green hills of Scotland for me. Thanks so much. :) | lkm
